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    Book SynopsisWhat is satire? How can we define it? Is it a weapon for radical change or fundamentally conservative? Is satire funny or cruel? Does it always need a target or victim? Combining thematic, theoretical and historical approaches, John T. Gilmore introduces and investigates the tradition of satire from classical models through to the present day. In a lucid and engaging style, Gilmore explores: the moral politics of satire whether satire is universal, historically or geographically limited how satire translates across genres and media the boundaries of free speech and legitimacy. Using examples from ancient Egypt to Charlie Hebdo, from European traditions of formal verse satire to imaginary voyages and alternative universes, newspaper cartoons and YouTube clips, from the Caribbean to China, this comprehensive volume should be of interest to students and scholars of literature, media and cultural studies as well as polTable of ContentsSeries Editor Preface Preface 1. Introduction 2. Beast Fables from Aesop to Animal Farm 3. Early Satire, from the Bible to Ancient Rome 4. Verse Satire after Antiquity 5. The Heirs of Lucian 6. The "Character" as Satire 7. Satire and Gender 8. Satire and the Visual Arts 9. Conclusion Bibliography

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    At a time when millions travel around the planet some by choice, some driven by economic or political exile translation of the written and spoken word is of ever increasing importance. This guide presents readers with an accessible and engaging introduction to the valuable position translation holds within literature and society. Leading translation theorist Susan Bassnett traces the history of translation, examining the ways translation is currently utilized as a burgeoning interdisciplinary activity and extending her analysis into developing areas such as developing technologies and new media forms.Translation Studies, fourth edition displays the importance of translation across disciplines, and is essential reading for students and scholars of translation, literary studies, globalisation studies and ancient and modern languages.

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  • Taylor & Francis The Routledge Queer Studies Reader

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    Book SynopsisThe Routledge Queer Studies Reader provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars working in this vibrant and interdisciplinary field.The book traces the emergence and development of Queer Studies as a field of scholarship, presenting key critical essays alongside more recent criticism that explores new directions. The collection is edited by leading scholars in the field and presents: individual introductory notes that situate each work within its historical, disciplinary and theoretical contexts essays grouped by key subject areas including Genealogies, Sex, Temporalities, Kinship, Affect, Bodies, and Borders writings by major figures including Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, David M. Halperin, Josà Esteban MuÃoz, Elizabeth Grosz, David Eng, Judith Halberstam and Sara Ahmed. The Routledge Queer Studies Reader is a field-defining volume and presents an illuminating guide for established scholars and also those new to Queer Studies.Trade Review'It is hard to imagine a volume that could represent the field more knowingly!' Robyn Wiegman, Duke University, USA'This fresh, innovative, and significant volume demonstrates convincingly the queer moment is by no means over.' Laura Doan, University of Manchester, UK'Get prepared to enter a scene of provocation, a sexy sort of maelstrom, where trans meets butch meets brown meets "quare" meets intersex, racial, post-colonial, and disabled matters in juxtaposition, in telling combinations. Even subtleties and biting formulations appear side by side, in a queer cubism, leading both students and scholars to thoughts that will startle and seduce them.' Kathryn Bond Stockton, University of Utah, USA"The Queer Studies Reader will serve as an official and unofficial textbook for those interested in overthrowing the patriarchal gender binary and interrupting heteronormativity." — Rachel Wexelbaum, Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources, Vol 34 No 3-4 2013Table of ContentsPart 1: Genealogies 1. Queer And Now Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 2. Critically Queer Judith Butler 3. Judith Butler: Queer Feminism, Transgender, and The Transubstantiation Of Sex Jay Prosser 4. The Queer Intervention Steven Angelides 5. Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics? Cathy J. Cohen 6. ‘Quare’ Studies, Or (Almost) Everything I Know About Queer Studies I Learned From My Grandmother E. Patrick Johnson 7. Introduction: Queer of Color Critique, Historical Materialism, And Canonical Sociology Roderick A. Ferguson 8. The Material of Sex (Excerpts) Rosemary Hennessy 9. Lacan Meets Queer Theory Tim Dean Part 2: Sex 10. Sex in Public Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner 11. Viral Sex and The Politics Of Life Gregory Tomso 12. Experimental Desire: Rethinking Queer Subjectivity Elizabeth Grosz 13. Dinge Robert Reid-Pharr Part 3: Temporalities 14. Do you want queer theory or do you want the truth? Intersections of punk and queer in the 1970s Tavia Nyong’o 15. Turn the Beat Around: Sadomasochism, Temporality, History Elizabeth Freeman 16. How to Do the History of Male Homosexuality David M. Halperin 17. The Future Is Kid Stuff: Queer Theory, Disidentification and the Death Drive Lee Edelman Part 4: Kinship 18. Transnational Adoption and Queer Diasporas David Eng 19. Making Queer Familia Richard T. Rodríguez 20. Romancing Kinship: A Queer Reading of Indian Education and Zitkala-Sa’s American Indian Stories Mark Rifkin 21. Notes on Gridlock: Genealogy, Intimacy, Sexuality Elizabeth A. Povinelli Part 5: Affect 22. AIDS Activism And Public Feelings Ann Cvetkovich 23. Archiving Queer Feelings in Hong Kong Helen Hok-Sze Leung 24. Feeling Brown, Feeling Down: Latina Affect, the Performativity of Race, And the Depressive Position José Esteban Muñoz 25. Queer Feelings Sara Ahmed Part 6: Bodies 26. What can queer theory do for intersex? Iain Morland 27. Transgender Butch: Butch/ FTM Border Wars And The Masculine Continuum Judith Halberstam 28. Compulsory Able-Bodiedness And Queer/Disabled Existence Robert McRuer 29. Hypothalamic Preference: Levay’s Study Of Sexual Orientation Elizabeth A. Wilson Part 7: Borders 30. Queer Times, Queer Assemblages Jasbir Puar 31. Queer Intersections: Sexuality and Gender In Migration Studies Martin F. Manalansan IV 32. Border/line Sex: Queer Postcolonialities or How Race Matters Outside the U.S. Anjali Arondekar 33. Transgender without Organs? Mobilizing a Geo-affective Theory of Gender Modification Lucas Cassidy Crawford

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Epic

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    Book SynopsisThis student guidebook offers a clear introduction to an often complex and unwieldy area of literary studies. Tracing epic from its ancient and classical roots through postmodern and contemporary examples this volume discusses: a wide range of writers including Homer, Vergil, Ovid, Dante, Chaucer, Milton, Cervantes, Keats, Byron, Eliot, Walcott and Tolkien texts from poems, novels, children's literature, tv, theatre and film themes and motifs such as romance, tragedy, religion, journeys and the supernatural. Offering new directions for the future and addressing the place of epic in both English-language texts and World Literature, this handy book takes you on a fascinating guided tour through the epic. Table of ContentsChapter One: Epic Literary History Chapter Two: Ancient and Classical Epic Chapter Three: From The Heroic towards Romance and Allegory Chapter Four: The Renaissance and the Early Novel Chapter Five: Epic in the Age of the Individual

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